LJ cuts

[sobrique]

Every now and then the discussion of whether to LJ-cut on livejournal arises.

Currently, I'm really only doing so when I have pictures, or 'non worksafeness' to hide.

However, in general:

Pros:
You're shortening the 'summary' of your journal, and resultant 'friends' pages.
It's one 'waggle' of the scroll wheel to skip, rather than several.

Cons:
You're declaring to the world that what you have to say is irrelevant.
If the reader _does_ want to read your post, they have to click a link, open it in a new window, or whatever.

Have I missed any?

And what's your opinion? What should, or shouldn't be cut?
Should one default to cutting _every_ post, since that's minimising wear and tear on the scrollwheel, and it's all irrelevant bollocks anyway? Or do you find it just as easy to skip by pressing 'pgdn' twice, instead of once?

Hmm, maybe I'll turn it into a poll, once I've got an idea of 'answers'.

Comments

[mister-jack.livejournal.com]

IMO, anything that will take up more than about two thirds of a 'screen', anything with images or anything that is wider than a standard entry should be cut. Along with spoilers and non-work safeness.

You're not declaring it is irrelevant. Anyone who has put you on their friends page has already decided that they think what you have to say is relevant.

I don't have a mouse wheel; I use a graphics tablet (due to RSI in my right hand). Not that it makes much difference. Most often I'm scrolling through the friends page to see whether there have been more comments to any of the posts on there. If there are big post or posts in there then it's that much harder to locate the lines on the screen that tell me whether there's been any new comments. Compared to this, the extra hassle in clicking a cut is practically non-existant; and since anything behind a cut is likely to be fairly long anyway the hassle of that click is going to be trivial next to the time involved in reading it anyway.